|| *Comments on the 1999 Pop Secret Microwave Popcorn 400:* View the most recent comment <#24> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. MASH_guy posted: 08.15.2005 - 3:50 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was the 3rd time in 1999 that Ward Burton finished 2nd to brother Jeff. The first two were at Las Vegas and the Southern 500. 2. Darrell posted: 01.15.2006 - 9:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Hut Stricklin had signed a 3-year contract with his team this weekend with sponsorship from Motorsports Safety Technologies. Then, for some bizarre reason, the contract fell through, and the 58 team folded before it's first season had come to an end. 3. myself posted: 02.20.2007 - 7:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The final race @ Rockingham I attended! I miss that ole' track. Dale Jarrett had far & away the best car....of course we all know that doesn't always equate to wins. 4. RaceFanX posted: 01.09.2008 - 11:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Stacy Compton makes his first Cup in 3 years 5. JCS posted: 09.15.2008 - 8:14 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I was in attendance at this race. It was kind of dull until the end when Jeff and Ward Burton battled. Ward would have caught his brother in about another lap or two. Just to show what a fan favorite Dale Earnhardt was, when he hit the wall and exited his car, he got more cheers than most drivers get for driver introductions. 6. 18fan posted: 11.08.2008 - 1:54 am Rate this comment: (0) (4) What a shock, Dale crashes. He was untalented and Childress just had the best equipment and he wrecked people to win constantly. When he wrecked late in races with other drivers he just blamed the other driver. The best example was 1989 @ Wilkesboro w/Ricky Rudd, when he said Rudd should be fined and suspended for the rest of the season. Dale should have had that happen to him multiple times but he was favored by NASCAR. 7. 18fan posted: 12.09.2008 - 1:06 am Rate this comment: (0) (2) Let me correct myself. Dale was talented, but not as talented as people give him credit for. Any driver can dominate when their owner has the top equipment unless they are just awful (Casey Mears, J.J. Yeley) 8. b4il3y posted: 05.07.2010 - 1:08 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) 18 fan=racing noob. 9. Madison posted: 07.10.2010 - 1:05 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I was just reading up on the contest, but what car did Johnny Benson race? 10. BiffreyIndiana posted: 02.18.2011 - 3:51 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Indiana boys 11th, 12th and 13th. A Trifecta of sorts, lol. 11. CBASS posted: 01.13.2013 - 7:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates #26 Pop Secret Microwave Popcorn #20 Home Depot/ Rigid #6 Valvoline http://archives.ciastockphoto.com/cgi/images.php?group=w9932 12. Evan posted: 01.20.2014 - 10:26 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) * Jeff Burton's last win in the purple and black Exide colors, he'd adopt a different look the next year in 2000. 13. Evan posted: 01.20.2014 - 10:26 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) * Jeff Burton's last win in the purple and black Exide colors, he'd adopt a different look the next year in 2000. 14. 23andJoe posted: 03.04.2014 - 4:18 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) #9 crew chief: Kevin Cram (same for remainder of season) 15. myself posted: 04.17.2015 - 11:46 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) I always saw that car as more of a pink & black rather than purple & black. 16. Scott B posted: 04.17.2015 - 12:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Johnny Benson was sponsored by General Mills, which usually had Cheerios on the car. For this race they featured Pop Secret Popcorn, another one of their product lines at that time. 17. Scott B posted: 04.17.2015 - 12:26 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) ^^^ done because Pop Secret was also the title sponsor of the race, obviously. 18. RaceFanX posted: 10.18.2019 - 9:07 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Adding to @1 After this race a reporter asked Ward Burton if it was getting frustrating to finish second to his brother Jeff Burton so often. Ward's simple reply confirming that was the case was ?Do you have a brother? Then you tell me.? Ward was still seeking his second career win at the time and while he wouldn't get it in 1999 he would finally get one at Darlington in early 2000. @17 This was the first year General Mills sponsored this race with the Pop Secret brand, replacing ACDelco Auto Parts in that role. They would continue sponsoring this race through its termination after the 2003 season. Since they always sponsored a NASCAR team during that period it became something of a tradition that they would run a Pop Secret branded car in this event instead of their usual Cheerios one, in later years after that sponsorship moved to the Petty Enterprises #43 they'd regularly run a fan vote promotion where fans could pick the car's special paint scheme. 19. ARosser14 posted: 10.27.2019 - 7:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) A week after this race, 20 years ago this coming Thursday, Greg Moore was fatally injured in the CART season finale at Fontana. Greg had been rumored to be making a move to NASCAR (Namely with AJ Foyt's new Cup team) before signing a deal with Penske to remain in CART beginning with the 2000 season. It seems widely assumed that the Penske deal would have eventually led him to NASCAR anyway, once he had satisfactorily dominated Indy-style racing. It's impossible not to sit and wonder what-if with drivers who's lives and careers are cut heartbreakingly short, but those questions may burn more brightly with Greg Moore than any such racer in at least the last quarter century. In regards to open-wheel, the sky seems limitless. With a resurgent Penske team backing him, it can be reasonably assumed that he would have taken at least one of Gil de Ferran's CART titles (I say that with all due respect to Gil, one of my favorite open wheelers). Given his oval-track prowess, he very well could have re-written the definition of dominance once the team switched to the IRL in 2002, as well. But I wonder - which is why I thought it was relevant to post a comment for the last Cup race run during his lifetime - what impact he could and perhaps would have had on NASCAR racing, if Penske indeed did bring him over (perhaps succeeding Rusty Wallace, or somewhere in that time frame). I like to think he would have made a mark. Of course we have the Pintys Series and a Gander Outdoors Truck race currently up in Canada, but I wonder how much bigger NASCAR would have grown in Canada had their biggest star been racing here. Just a lot of questions we'll never have the answers to. Doesn't stop us from asking them, of course. God bless Greg, his family, friends, and fans. 20. possum posted: 10.27.2019 - 1:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @19 - well, not to speak poorly of the departed, but given Sam Hornish's example (who dominated Indycar racing for Penske for 8 years, and failed miserably in NASCAR) I would say the odds are Moore would have done poorly in stock cars. Yeah, there's been a few drivers with success in NASCAR after running Indycars (Tony Stewart immediately comes to mind), but almost all of them have a dirt-car background. Moore's background was entirely formula cars, as far as I know; had he lived a future goal of F1 would have been a better choice than NASCAR. 21. Spen posted: 10.27.2019 - 3:45 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yeah, especially with the stated timetable. Moore and Pruett in the same rookie class? I have a feeling the cautions per race would skyrocket. 22. Brett posted: 03.24.2020 - 8:17 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I think this might be the only race from the '99 season that currently does not have any footage uploaded to youtube at this point. 23. Brett posted: 03.24.2020 - 8:39 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Both of the video links for this race have been taken down as of 3/24/20 24. SweetRich posted: 06.29.2020 - 4:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators were Eli Gold, Buddy Baker and Dr. Dick Berggren. The pit road reporters were Steve Byrnes, Glenn Jarrett and Ralph Sheheen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: